03739nam a2200481Ka 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020003500124020003200159020003500191020003200226035002100258035001800279050002400297072002500321082001200346049000900358245010700367260007400474300003500548504005100583505177900634588011102413650003902524650004202563650004102605650002702646650004102673655002202714700003402736700002302770711011402793776017202907856010503079938002803184910001603212994001203228999001703240ocn816110086OCoLC20200709055620.0m        d        cr cnu---unuuu121106s2012    mau     ob    101 0 eng d  aN$TcN$T  a9780674067400 (electronic bk.)  a0674067401 (electronic bk.)  z9780674066496 (electronic bk.)  z0674066499 (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)816110086  a494500b(N$T) 4aCB311b.A885 2012eb 7aHISx0020002bisacsh04a930223  aN$TA04aThe Axial Age and its consequencesh[electronic resource] /cedited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas.  aCambridge, Mass. :bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (ix, 548 p.)  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aFundamental questions. The Axial Age debate as religious discourse / Hans Joas -- What was the Axial revolution? / Charles Taylor -- An evolutionary approach to culture : implications for the study of the Axial Age / Merlin Donald -- Embodiment, transcendence, and contingency : anthropological features of the Axial Age / Matthias Jung -- The Axial Age in global history : cultural crystallizations and societal transformations / Björn Wittrock -- The Buddha's meditative trance : visionary knowledge, aphoristic thinking, and Axial Age rationality in early Buddhism / Gananath Obeyesekere -- The idea of transcendence / Ingolf U. Dalferth -- A comparative perspective. Religion, the Axial Age, and secular modernity in Bellah's theory of religious evolution / José Casanova -- Where do Axial commitments reside? : problems in thinking about the African case / Ann Swidler -- The Axial Age theory : a challenge to historism or an explanatory device of civilization analysis? : with a look at the normative discourse in Axial Age China / Heiner Roetz -- Destructive possibilities? The Axial conundrum between transcendental visions and vicissitudes of their institutionalizations : constructive and destructive possibilities / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Axial religions and the problem of violence / David Martin -- Righteous rebels : when, where, and why? / W.G. Runciman -- Reevaluations. Rehistoricizing the Axial Age / Johann P. Arnason -- Cultural memory and the myth of the Axial Age / Jan Assmann -- Perspectives on the future. The Axial invention of education and today's global knowledge culture / William M. Sullivan -- The future of transcendence : a sociological agenda / Richard Madsen -- The heritage of the Axial Age : resource or burden? / Robert N. Bellah.  aDescription based on online resource; title from .pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed November 6, 2012). 0aCivilization, AncientvCongresses. 0aComparative civilizationvCongresses. 0aPhilosophy, ComparativevCongresses. 0aReligionsvCongresses. 7aHISTORY / Ancient / General2bisacsh 4aElectronic books.1 aBellah, Robert Neelly,d1927-1 aJoas, Hans,d1948-2 aConference "Axial Age and Its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present"d(2008 :cErfurt, Germany)08iPrint version:tAxial age and its consequences.dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012z9780674066496w(DLC)  2012008329w(OCoLC)784708285403EBSCOhostuhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494500  aEBSCOhostbEBSCn494500  acpp1723AUTO  a02bN$T  c51807d51807